Product Manager

Ford • Dearborn, MI

8h • Hybrid

About The Position

We are the movers of the world and the makers of the future. We get up every day, roll up our sleeves and build a better world -- together. At Ford, we’re all a part of something bigger than ourselves. Are you ready to change the way the world moves? Enterprise Technology plays a critical part in shaping the future of mobility. If you’re looking for the chance to leverage advanced technology to redefine the transportation landscape, enhance customer experience and improve people’s lives, this is the opportunity for you. Join us and challenge your IT expertise and analytical skills to help create vehicles that are as smart as you are. Ford Pro is a new global business within Ford committed to commercial customer productivity. Ford Pro delivers a work-ready suite of vehicles, accessories and services for virtually every vocation, backed by technology and engineered for uptime. A true one-stop shop, we offer a full portfolio of electrified and internal combustion vehicles designed to integrate seamlessly with the Ford Pro ecosystem, helping customers' businesses thrive today and into the new era of electrification. In this position... The Product Manager will work with individual product teams and product managers to iteratively deliver functionality that optimizes for assigned products. This is an exciting opportunity to be part of a team that will be instrumental in crafting the future of how we do business with the commercial customer at the center of everything we do. Are you passionate about applying technology to solve business problems? Are you motivated to apply your software skills to build the solutions that will support and increase productivity for our commercial customers? Our group has been tasked to develop scalable building block platform for Ford Pro. Does it sound exciting? Then, join our team as a Product Manager. Based in Dearborn, MI, this is a hybrid position with a required four-day onsite presence each week

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent combination of relevant education and experience.
• 5+ years with progressive responsibilities in an Agile software development environment
• 3+ years of experience as a Product Manager/Owner with responsibilities to include defining product vision, strategy, product roadmaps and building and managing backlogs and similar duties.

Nice To Haves

• Master’s Degree
• Leadership experience
• Experience collaborating directly with Agile software methodologies (Scrum, eXtreme Programming, Kanban)
• Skilled at defining and prioritizing product features.
• Strong leadership and communication skills and the ability to teach others.
• Ability to work collaboratively with others and navigate complex decision making.
• Ability to collaborate well with engineers, designers, and business partners.
• Previous success delivering a product to market with an Agile development team, and ongoing development and support of production applications.
• Curious about new technologies and exhibit a strong desire to learn.
• Practice in Lean/Lean Startup thinking, human-centered product development and Agile Software development
• Have exposure to lightweight product development methods such as user story mapping and/ or rapid prototyping

Responsibilities

• Maintain a balance between business viability, user desirability and technical feasibility while delivering software products with a team.
• Work closely with Business Partners to define a product vision and break it down into an actionable backlog of user stories for the development team.
• Work hands-on with the development team to prioritize, plan, and deliver software that creates excellent user experiences.
• Collaborate with the product team to define specifications, requirements, and acceptance criteria for deliverables.
• Help Business Partners understand our iterative development approach and focus on delivering a Minimum Viable Product through careful and deliberate prioritization.
• Work with product designers to ensure timely delivery of designs and assets to the development team.
• Conduct product experiments, user interviews and other validation techniques to gather feedback and product insights
• Create assets to guide product development work (Discovery, Framing and Scoping documents, opportunity trees, user stories).
• Help partners understand our iterative development approach.
• Mentor and train other PMs to help them learn agile/XP methods, product management techniques and build skills.
• Help innovate and iterate on agile PM processes and share our learnings.

Benefits

• Immediate medical, dental, and prescription drug coverage
• Flexible family care, parental leave, new parent ramp-up programs, subsidized back-up childcare and more
• Vehicle discount program for employees and family members, and management leases
• Tuition assistance
• Established and active employee resource groups
• Paid time off for individual and team community service
• A generous schedule of paid holidays, including the week between Christmas and New Year’s Day
• Paid time off and the option to purchase additional vacation time.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees